Welcome With Karim Kanji

Sameer Vasta is a Digital Anthropologist with the Government of Ontario. Jay Menard is a Content Strategist with Digital Echidna. Both are friends. And both currently call London, Ontario home. I recently met up with both of them in London to talk about London and so much more!

Cindy Pom is a reporter with Global News in Toronto who in her spare times loves to scuba dive.

Dawn Cuthbertson is a Managing Editor for the Global News website. In journalism for nearly 12 years, Dawn started out as a newspaper reporter with stints at The Observer in Sarnia, Ont., The Kingston Whig-Standard and Windsor Star before moving online with Microsoft, AOL and Huffington Post.

Zain Velji is the co-creator and host of the highly-rated political podcast, The Strategists which dissects the strategies of political campaigns, parties and governments and is the inspiration of the CBC Television and Radio panel of the same name.

Raina Douris is the award-winning radio host of CBC Radio 2 in the mornings. In today's episode we talk about Raina's career in radio from Ryerson to Q107 to getting fired from Corus and then leading the start-up Indie88 to now being the morning host on CBC Radio2 national morning show.

Bruce Livesey is a Toronto-based award-winning investigative journalist and documentarian. Currently the lead investigative reporter for the National Observer Livesey has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Report on Business Magazine, National Post, Toronto Star, The Gazette, The Walrus, Canadian Business, Canadian Lawyer and The Financial Post.

Former President and CEO of Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment and current Toronto Foundation Vice Chair, Richard Peddie returns to the studio. This time Peddie and Karim talk about how to make Toronto a more liveable and caring city.

Salim Naran and Karim Kanji have been friends for over 3 decades. After years of building technology solutions for companies in various industries, Salim Naran is now the co-founder and CTO of Canadian fintech startup, Borrowell.

Sulemaan Ahmed is one of the parents behind the #NoFLyListKids initiative and the Principal of Servo Annex, which provides hands-on coaching to senior executives on how to use all digital platforms, social media and mobile tools.

Mathew Ingram is a senior writer at Fortune magazine, where he writes about media and the social web. Today we chat about the evolution of media especially with Trump as America's president.

Anna Hill is an American living in Canada. She is also a community builder in Toronto and is a co-founder and Project Director with Together Project.

Today my guest is a former Dragon on CBC’s popular Dragon’s Den, head of Prairie Merchant Corporation and part owner of the NHL's Nashville Predators, W. Brett Wilson.

Today I Welcome Deputy Leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party and MPP from Malton and possible future leader of the federal NDP party, Jagmeet Singh.

Brian Jackson is the Editor of ITBusiness.ca and the Social Media Director of IT World Canada.

Cameron Gordon is the Head of Communications for Twitter Canada. He also co-hosts the Completely Ignored Podcast.

Crispin Duenas ia a 3x Olympic team member and Canada's top ranked male archer.

In the 20th episode of Welcome!, Karim Kanji talks with entrepreneur Romana Kassam about life travelling Europe and Africa, climbing Kilimanjaro, dealing with East Indian parents and their expectations of their daughter, working corporate life and her decision to stop participating in the rat race to start her own business.

On Saturday February 20, 2016 Khadija Cajee joined Welcome’s Karim Kanji at PodCamp Toronto for a special one our interview in front of a live audience. Khadija Cajee’s six year old son, Syed Adam Ahmed, has been on Canada’s DHP (Deemed High Profile) for as long as she and her husband, Sulemaan Ahmed, can remember.

Today, we talk with the one-time Toronto mayoral candidate, former Liberal MPP and Ontario’s first openly gay MPP and Ontario cabinet minister, George Smitherman. Music by Afraaz Mulji.

Today, I welcome Canadian journalist, author, and documentary producer at TVO, and anchor of TVO's flagship current affairs program The Agenda, Steve Paikin.